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T_i_B

(14,738 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:00 PM Feb 2019

Wimpy version of rugby over for another year

Lobs egg, runs back to the UK forum!

https://newsthump.com/2019/02/04/wimpy-version-of-rugby-over-for-another-year/?fbclid=IwAR27lZ5rK5K2YdiPO8mnGVfnVQaIc0WEbnNlqe6zVsB3v2g0Yf5S6XGEXAI

The slower, more commercial-packed version of Rugby where all of the players feel the need to wear body armour and helmets celebrated its terrible version of the Six Nations yesterday, where one of the teams probably won; we didn’t stay up to watch because we’re not insane and we didn’t even bother looking up the teams involved because we don’t care.

“Go superbowl!” said an American. “This American Football cup final was the most American Footballest of all. What a spectacle. I’m sure you will be watching that team take on the other team just as I shall be, and enjoying the halftime show performance by someone-or-other.

“What’s this rugby game y’all have? Is it slow and boring like soccer or do you stop for an advert every four minutes like in proper sports?”

Rugby player, Jay Cooper, said, “If I rocked up to practice wearing shoulder pads I’d get knocked out, and rightly so.
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Wimpy version of rugby over for another year (Original Post) T_i_B Feb 2019 OP
Super Bowl - where 15 minutes of action is packed into 4 hours rurallib Feb 2019 #1
6 Nations started this weekend! T_i_B Feb 2019 #2
Just as the chip is an excuse for the dip, Aristus Feb 2019 #3

Aristus

(66,386 posts)
3. Just as the chip is an excuse for the dip,
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:45 PM
Feb 2019

so too is the sport an excuse for the advertisements and the kitchy, pseudo-patriotic spectacle.

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